2023 Most Well Attended Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 360 people earned their degree in polymer and plastics engineering, making the major the 293rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, polymer and plastics engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $62,838 and had an average of $26,051 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 39 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in polymer and plastics engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular polymer and plastics engineering programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the Southeast Region

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University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Mississippi. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. This fairly large school is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and it awarded 19 bachelors’s polymer engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Southern Mississippi Polymer & Plastics Engineering Report

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Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Auburn, Alabama, this large public school handed out 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s polymer engineering students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Auburn

• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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